Art Institute of Chicago

Woodman (Waldarbeiter)

Georg Baselitz · 1969

Provenance

Ownership history

Franz Dahlem, Darmstadt, Germany, 1970–1981; sold to Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, 1981; sold to the Art Institute, 1987.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

London, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, Georg Baselitz: Paintings, 1966–69, Nov. 10–Dec. 3, 1982, pl. 14 (as Woodmen (Waldarbeiter), 1968)
New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Georg Baselitz, Nov. 21–Dec. 23, 1987, no cat. no. (as Waldarbeiter, 1968).
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Georg Baselitz, Oct. 22, 1996–Jan. 5, 1997, cat. 8 (as Ohne Titel (Waldarbeiter).
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Georg Baselitz: A Retrospective, 22 Sept.–9 Dec 2007. cat. 76 (as Woodsman (Waldarbeiter), 1969) .
Riehen/Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Georg Baselitz, Jan. 21–Apr. 29, 2018, no cat. no.; Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Musuem and Sculpture Garden, as Baselitz: Six Decades, June 21–Sept. 16, 2018 (Washington D.C. only).
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Baselitz: La rétrospective, Oct. 20, 2021–Mar. 7, 2022, no cat. no.

Literature

Published references

Rafael Jablonka, Georg Baselitz: Paintings, 1966–1969, exh. cat. (Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1982), pp. 25 (color ill.); 26 (as Woodmen/Waldarbeiter, 1968).
Trevor Fairbrother, Georg Baselitz, exh. cat. (Mary Boone Gallery, 1987) n.pag. (color ill. as Waldarbeiter, 1968).
Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1986–1987 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1987), p. 29, fig. 17 (ill.).
“Georg Baselitz: Sculpture and Early Woodcuts,” exh. cat. (London: Anthony d’Offay Gallery, 1987), n.pag. (ill.), as “Woodmen/Waldarbeiter.”
Eleanor Heartney, “Georg Baselitz at Mary Boone,” Art in America, vol. 76, no. 7 (July 1988), p. 134.
Christos M. Joachimides et al., “Georg Baselitz: dipinti 1965–1987,” exh. cat. (Electa, 1988), p. 52 (photo).
Susan Kandel and Elizabeth Hayt-Atkins, “Georg Baselitz,” Art News, vol. 87, no. 3 (March 1988), p. 189.
Donald Kuspit, “Georg Baselitz: Mary Boone Gallery,” Artforum, vol. 26, no. 7 (March 1988), p. 134, (as Waldarbeiter (Forestworker), 1968).
James N. Wood and Katharine C. Lee, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago/New York Graphic Society, 1988), p. 160 (color ill.).
James N. Wood, Treasures of 19th- and 20th-Century Painting: The Art Institute of Chicago (Abbeville Press, 1993), p. 256 (color ill.).
James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Hudson Hills Press, 1996), p. 136 (color ill.).
Suzanne Pagé, Juliette Laffon, and Odile Burluraux, Georg Baselitz, exh. cat. (Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1996) p. 83, cat. 8 (color ill. as Ohne Title (Waldarbeiter), 1969).

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